The 2019 economics Nobel Prize for Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer (hereafter, BDK) offers much to celebrate for Indians, Bengalis and Frenchwomen among others. Designers, in their modern role as global problem solvers, should join in. They have much to be inspired by. The practices of economics and design appear to have little in common. But they share common ground when… Continue reading Experiment and Reason
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Nobel, Dylan and the twilight of authority
“The Nobel Committee has won the Bob Dylan Prize,” announced the Always Contrarian Everyman, or ACE, a lapsed academic I’d been introduced to by mutual friends, to help with some research on communications planning. “Only,” he continued, “that It gave it to itself, of course.” He checked my features to ensure that the inversion had… Continue reading Nobel, Dylan and the twilight of authority